The Sumerians - 9781789144154

Description: The SumeriansLost Civilizations Author(s): Paul Collins Format: Hardback Publisher: Reaktion Books, United Kingdom Imprint: Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 9781789144154, 978-1789144154 Synopsis The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last 150 years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

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Book Title: The Sumerians

Item Height: 216 mm

Item Width: 138 mm

Series: Lost Civilizations

Author: Paul Collins

Publication Name: The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Subject: Archaeology, History

Publication Year: 2021

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 208 Pages